It was great to meet up with longtime friends, clients, and manufacturers. The relationship between the firearm industry and consumers has never looked stronger.

The glitz and glamour of the NRA Annual Meeting is but one great part of the weekend, the nuts and bolts… the “dull” regulation & policy side is what interests us equally at Kim Firm Guns. After several hours of speakers throughout the day, Mr. William J. Ryan from the BATFE took the podium to address the current state of the BATFE, NFA, and Gun Trusts. The talk from Mr. Ryan gave us three takeaways:

What do we mean? One of the primary consumer causes of the BATFE NFA Gun Trust backlog is improperly designed trusts that have been pirated/downloaded/copied from the internet or created by improperly executed one-size-fits-all software. Mr. Ryan told the audience that the BATFE examines each and every trust for accuracy and consistencies, if any required fields are blank or improperly executed, the trust is not accepted.

The Truth About Guns highlights the great example of an anonymous person who uploads their BATFE approved gun trust to the internet, where it is then downloaded by countless users, modified incorrectly, which then results in numerous rejected gun trusts. Others modified the gun trust form to be “technically correct” and approved, but failed to modify the beneficiary… which results in leaving their NFA items upon their death to a certain woman in KS… imagine her surprise when she finds out she’ll be inheriting thousands of NFA items and accessories from various deceased trust holders!

Mr. Ryan also mentioned that the BATFE has practically no problems with NFA Gun Trusts prepared by attorneys.

You don’t do your own dental work, so please don’t do your own legal work!

In the third takeaway , Mr. Ryan addressed the looming 41P decision, first published in the Federal Register in SEPT 2013… the proposed fingerprint, photograph, and CLEO requirements for NFA Gun Trusts holders. He said, the BATFE is still responding to the 9,500 comments submitted during the comment period… which means we are unsure if 41P will actually be addressed next month.

As always, we’ll keep our eyes open and ears to the ground to bring our KFG clients the latest!

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The Kim Firm, LLC provides preparation of Georgia NFA Gun Trusts and the formation of Georgia based corporate entities (Corporations and LLCs) for ownership of firearms and firearm accessories that are governed by the National Firearm Act and related federal and state laws.

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Jin H. Kim, Esq. is available to serve clients throughtout the state of Georgia. Clients include numerous companies in the firearms industry, including Federal Firearms Licensed (FFL) gun dealers, Class 3 Special Occupation Tax (SOT) dealers and manufacturers, defense contractors, training consultants, gun ranges, and individual collectors. For clients interested in his services, we are ready to serve you at your convenience by appointment, phone and email.